Mr. Speaker, the third annual employment insurance monitoring and assessment report confirms that seasonal workers, women and young people are the main victims of the system. The results also confirm what the Bloc Quebecois has been repeatedly telling the Liberal government.
We also have the results of a recent study by the Canadian Labour Congress, which indicates that over 70% of unemployed women—low and middle income women, young women and new mothers—receive no benefits. However, the Congress reminds us that the opposite was true ten years ago: 70% of unemployed women received benefits.
Statistics Canada researchers go even further, recognizing that EI cuts are the most important factor in child poverty in Canada.
With an annual surplus of $6 billion, the Minister of Human Resources Development must put a stop to this scandal and amend the EI scheme as soon as possible.